Turfbuilding: SEVEN

The weekend before Christian's birthday was supposed to be Baylor's dance recital. Perfect right? All the fam can be in town for two events with only one trip, right? The recital got postponed until JULY, but we still were able to celebrate our favorite 7 year old. Yes, you read that correctly--my baby boy is 7!!! I can't get my mind around it. He is still the same sweet natured boy he's always been, but now there are other definite boy traits thrown in...burping is so funny (according to him) and he acts silly for whoever will laugh and play along. But he also has started having conversations w/ me about things he never would have thought of before. He listens to everything around him and is aware of what's going on. How many 7 year olds do you know that are worried about the oil spill and how it will affect the animals? or will look up and tell me if it's going to rain b/c of the types of clouds he sees in the sky? Jeff and I couldn't have asked for a better boy!!! We have so much fun and are so thankful God blessed us with him.

Tex, KayKay, Nana, Papa and Uncle Jeremy all came to celebrate. Christian picked The Snappy Tomato b/c he says they have the best pizza ever:) We invited our good friends, The Shipps and The Bilbos, b/c they are like family to us. We met the Shipps just before we had Christian and they have been such a big part of our lives ever since. Jeff met Tim & Tressa when he started at Lipscomb and they became my friends when Jeff and I started dating in '96...you do the math...we've known them a long time.

Jeff and his little buddy Levi

He did not want a cake b/c he loves the dessert pizza at Snappy

We love all things Star Wars!! Books, games, Leggos and action figures

Lila, Ruby and Levi gave us the coolest R2D2 game

Big surprise...he's already reading one of the books he just opened

I had to put this one in b/c I love how Caleb and Ruby are both looking at the other kids w/ those BIG smiles:) Christian is the oldest of the group, Lila is almost 6, James is almost 5 (lots of summer birthdays) Baylor is 4 1/2, Ruby is 3 1/2, Caleb is 2 and Levi rounds us off at 1. So between the three families we cover the age bracket

Toy Story 3 came out a few days after his birthday and we invited a few friends to watch with us. The theater was a nut house, but it was very smooth for us b/c I had a little helper doing all the work. She saved our seats, got the boxes all set, took drink orders. I highly recommend doing the party plan if you are going on opening weekend.